Just a note to my fellow LJ’s to remember safety. I was ripping some rough stock on Friday afternoon to make a simple storage box for my dovetail jig. While cutting the 3/4” pine planks for the box sides to lenght a piece binded on the tablesaw and went flying. It hit me in the stomack and took me down! completely knocked the wind out of me and still had enough momentum to clear mine and my neighbours driveway. And I wasnt doing anything wrong; the piece was long, the cutt-off side was correct, fully supported, new and sharp blade. It just binded. BE CAREFULL OUT THERE!!! I consider myself very lucky.

-- “There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.” ~ JRR Tolkien

Stay off the saw for a while. Maybe ‘til your gut heals. So long as you’re staying off – I’ll bet beer helps you mend.

In the meantime, please do try to figure out what happened, because something DID happen. As mentioned, if you don’t have a riving knife, get one. If you weren’t using a miter, should you have? If you didn’t push through, should you have?

I don’t know what went wrong, but I’m confident you’ll figure it out. Let us know . . .

Ripping? looks like a cross-cut. Hey, you weren’t trying to use your fence and miter gauge at the same time, were you? Seems to be a piece of the puzzle missing here. Tell us about your saw, whether it has a riving knife, kickback pawls, etc…because there’s nothing to be learned here except that somebody had a kickback incident.

-- Einstein: "The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift." I'm Poopiekat!!

I dont have a riving knife. Yet. I was pushing thhrough towards the end of the cut. The board has a slight bow in it and I suspect it lifted just a tad at the rear and caught on a tooth. was not using the miter gauge. And it was a rip in the grain direction. Taking of about 4” of a 12” board.

-- “There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.” ~ JRR Tolkien